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Dark is the light,
The man you fight,
With all your prayers, incantations,
Running away, a trivial day,
Of judgment and deliverance,
To whom was sold, this bounty soul,
A gentile or a priest ?
Who victored over, the Seljuks,
When the holy land was taken

We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens

Was it the riches, of the land,
Powers of bright darkness,
That lead the noble, to the East,
To fight the heathens

We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens

We must call upon our bright darkness,
Beliefs, they're the bullets of the wicked,
One was written on the sword,
For you must enter a room to destroy it,
International security,
Call of the righteous man,
Needs a reason to kill man,
History teaches us so,
The reason he must attain,
Must be approved by his God,
His child, partisan brother of war,

Of war, we don't speak anymore,
Of war, we don't speak anymore,
Of war, we don't speak anymore,
Of war, we don't speak anymore,

We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
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This was said by Serj before performing this song during a live concert:

When your lives depends upon American corporate profits in the Middle East, South East Asia, South America, all over the world. When the CIA has gone to bed with all your companies financial institutions and multinational corporations, your destiny has ended. Your government has sold you to the 5% of the population that controls 95% of the assets. Your lives are over in the next 15-20 years. Why? Why? WHY! Because you're envorinment is !&#ing dieing, there is not enough to support the human race and why? WHY! For !&#ing Profits! For !&#ing Dollars! Wake the !&# up! It is time to bring the truth back from the middle east, south east asia, eastern europe, south america. It is time for the United States Administration, Congress and the Pentagon to shut the !&*# up and listen to you, the american people. It's time!

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This song was said by Serj Tankian to be a question towards reasoning of war. The reasons for wars to be started keep changing. First it was pride, then for religion, then for drugs and dominationism and now it's for patriotism.

@some1_named_no_1 or in other words as my wife so succinctly puts it "men measuring their dicks and arguing over whose is bigger!"

Although now you have women pulling out theirs too!

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As everyone has guessed, this is about wrongly using good causes for bad deeds, namely war. The Crusaders wrongly used God as an excuse to ransack the East for money, they even attacked churches in the East. When he says "Beliefs they're the bullets of the wicked", i think he means that beliefs are fine as long as you don't "shoot" them (force them) at people.

@Kingscallop False, the crusades were declared to take back the holy lands from the Muslims who had recently captured them and banished it's Christian civilians. Nice try lying though and putting the blame on the whites, yeah it's always our fault isn't it.

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This song has 2 meanings.

1) Seljuk Turks that invaded the Caucasus and subjugated crusader Kingdoms like the Kingdom of Georgia, Armenia, and finally they conquered Byzantium.

2) At the same time the song is comparing USA to a Crusader state that pillages the holy lands (middle east) for it's riches and slays the heathens (Muslims).

There are some huge misconceptions about SOAD, many here are against Christianity... Such as the Iranian guy, and Ben. Shavo the drummer is a Christian. The others are Agnostic or Atheist.

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System of a Down always reminds no to believe but to question everything. They are damn right!!!!

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i meant not tot believe :0)

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this was my first system song and i still love it to death. i was on vacation at the time, so i couldn't get my hands on any of their other material for several days and, needless to say, i damn near died waiting. it was love at first note. this song is (duh) about the causes of war... primarily religion. i can't stand idiots who think serj is saying he will fight the heathens... rofl... sigh you know.. music is not always from a first-person perspective... I'M GOING TO A SYSTEM CONCERT IN LATE FEBRUARY, HOLY SWEET GOD DAMN YES!!!!!!

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This is still the best SOAD song. Anyway, on the live recording with Lynn Strait, he simply criticizes what we think of war. The US interferes with many wars around the world, so how can "we fuckers call it war" even if it isn't war?

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i love this song, i totally agree with the message in it, and system does not say question everything, they themselves have beliefs, if you dont believe me(which obviously you dont since you dont believe in anything) than check out their song science

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Didn't the Seljuks side with the Crusaders?

@fadel Nope lol. They took Constantinople from the Crusaders.